Running spotless throws git related exception due to /usr/etc not existing

When I run spotless I sometimes get exceptions like the one below.

Parallel execution is an incubating feature.

> Task :SubProjA:spotlessJava
Exception caught during execution of command '[git, config, --system, --edit]' in '/usr/bin', return code '128', error message 'fatal: Invalid path '/usr/etc': No such file or directory
'

It does not fail so it’s probably caught and logged somewhere but I’m unsure if it affects if the task did it’s work. Anyhow it’s annoying now that gradle outputs very little a a default. Also I don’t understand why spotless wan’t to check my git config…line endings?

[staffanf]

I just got this on gradle stderr(out?) in one run with 3.6.0.

Exception in thread "Thread-482" java.lang.IllegalThreadStateException: process hasn't exited
        at java.lang.UNIXProcess.exitValue(UNIXProcess.java:423)
        at org.eclipse.jgit.util.FS$GobblerThread.setError(FS.java:588)
        at org.eclipse.jgit.util.FS$GobblerThread.run(FS.java:576)

So this indeed indicated issues jgit handling of output from the git config --system --edit command.

[nedtwigg]

We’ve had lots of jgit fixes since this. Happy to reopen if it is reproducible on spotless latest.